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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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By all means, don't say, if I can, say I will.
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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
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Too many piglets not enough tits.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [] and to preach there-from that, In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread, to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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My policy is to have no policy.
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Every blade of grass is a study and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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